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) - :a ;fl rc ,ch ant :le the LlO 35 1 Ii c ~ Z i e irai 'CC' )on , ,ora lo ght 6 rld gilt ill' ttlt iOO 1119, be SPANISH PAPEAS CADIZ, MARCH 31.—Nothit4 new has Aitken Rice here since my last ; but at Huelva a party of tilt! French Went in and massacred all they could get at, without distinaion of age or sex. . betters from Valericia state, that the French; in fti)te about 12,000 Men, attacked .on the sth r.be tiburbs, but it appeari that they were gallantly "re, putted. The Vile de Paris, with •the remains of Lord CotaaNOWOOD, arrived he - re -- yesterday they 're to be sent to-morrow in a frigate . for land; and . Admiral PURVIS will accompany then .: .General GRAHAM arrived some dayS ago; the l';(iC , ps so long expected and so very 4 . lixiooy, r4 re. l 'o , s , coming in ; we may therOore h bope that 1,1, 7 conduce to hasten some offensive-dperations;', .4 EXTRAORDINAIO('GAZETTE.,..;... The Supreme Council of Government has received I Le following report, addressed to his F.cellettcy• 11 °L) F. GUIA: • . • •. • •••'‘. " MOST EXCELX.ENT " It is With the utmost pleasUre I transmit to for the information of hiS Majesty, the annex.erk ',Tort, which I have just received from Cannel i l'on J. VoLiarvrA, relative to the evacuation .ofMa ita by the French. ," This nattering intelligence I have received from t l't Chief Magistrate of Marvella, by which it ap 7. Pe4 rB that Capt. F. L OPEZ* -who-.arrived from the p 4t Of Malaga, affirmed to him that the 'French • evacuated that city on the 17th, at seven o'clock, m in . 111 4 mor n i ng , t a ki ng w i t h the the artillery of ,San ' 'l . rdre. It also appears by some 'sconfidential to rnmetnications which have reached 'me that the e ttetny has also evacuated Medina, and fallen back . t 6 the woods near Chiclana, and that in come. 94 ence of a sally made by the enemy, the French lost 4130 4 1000 men, in killed, wounded, and prisoners; " ADRIAN JACOME." ' ,Littea of Gibraltar, March ;o, r 8 to. eADIX, MAaca 30.—No7himg remarkable has erred these last-days in our niighbbirrhood; we 4 A 1 7 know that the enemy in fortifying his positions tp Chielana, here several batteries' have been con,-, ltr ucted by the French. The last letters from Gibraltar "slate, that the f '''etty lately ['net with a severe chechnear Zalamea, Li d that the inhabitants of Marbe:lla joined the in. ' Netts of the Sierra Morena. beana is also said have been evacuated by the enemy. 4, LACT FROM THE DISPATCHES 'RANSMITT.E D BY THE GIIIIERAL•IN CHIEF OF THE *KNIT OF ESTRE- k AOURA, DATED THS 21ST iNsTs il l " In consequence of a fruitlessiattack made by " l e French against Badajoz, they. established them it' el in -Merida, Zatra, and Santa Marta. In order to tnolest them, the Marquisile la Rom ANA, detached NOT -General Don CARLO 6 `..... n n —ONNEL., who COM -4741, "S the second division of that_ a rm y, w ith or d ers attack Caceres, Truxillo, and the whole front of 4ts Position. O`DURNEL marched accordingly from Albu 14ferque on th e 12t h i nst . w i t h 25 ,000 h ien, 200 th e were cavalry, and p ursu ed hi s marc h to t , l el4th, w h en, at break of day, our advanced par 's ? Ufeil in with the enemy's van-guard, drove the te nch out of Caceres, and pursued them as far as olden de Cano, three leagues distance from Caceres. • t 4 e again attacked in-that position, they retyeatedd n ello, nine leagues • distant from the point . i ' ll ere'th e y were first attacked, arid .it is known, o tcit tl accounts since received, that they have corn ie -. te lY evacuated Merida, Agra, and Sania Murda. Th , e ynemy's loss is said to exce e d 1-so tiien. , ' I t 1 4 reported that in consequence of the above t tl es.ses, our troops entered S. Olalla ou the 223, Which point .Major-Ge.neral Don FitaNcisco 4LtasTEßos was dice Ling his march to cut off fhe e ft „, s retreat. in ( be lo s s w hi c h t h e F renc h susta i n f rom our Ey ; Parties is such, that the foreign troops who serve 1 their armies are quite disgusted with that kind of 4trar e, and desert in considerable numbers. Up arc's of 100 have to-day arrived in Ciudad Ro :etigos Badajoz, and Astorga, and all deserters una 11113thly state, that desertion would be more fre- . ' l4 elat were the men not afraid of the peasants. The J unta o f S ev il le has reported from Ayarnente t o of t he Supreme Council of Regency, under the date the 24th instant, th a t th e F renc h h ave b een corn - I t eiy driven out of Estremadura, and pursued by BALLESTEROS, wit; arrived on the 22d in ° lalla, and that the dispersed enemy retreated )irti . y to Seville, and partly to the Sierra. The two Houses of Parliament will, it is under. %fo o d , adjourn, this day for the Easter recess ; the mrnons to Monday se'nnigtit, and the Lords to fue,sday ' , rifts 'nothing three oottenburgh Mails arrived, "nt their contents ale very unimportant,: N AVAL NE W S. PLYMO4:II, Al" RI L 16.—Arrived his Majesty's store-ship Tortoise from Gibraltar, bound to Ports mouth, put in here by contrary winds ; sailed the 31st March, and we regret to stat e th a t s h e b l i ngs the melancholy account of the death of Admiral Lord Cor.r.uscwoon on the. 7th March, after a lin ming illness. .. , . .The West Indi#nan . that arrived here yesterday, stated to have been the Ons is the - Wansiea4, . • . limonm!,..from • .Jamaica, laden with rum, sugar, and Co ff ee, bound t o Co n do n ; s h e was captured on the 261ii'Mar6h by a French •Corvette, and retticen. on . the . 3d -April by JiiS Majesty's Ship zi/p.e/ia;.- the corvette captured on the 25th trit-liteiizia, of Belfast, from the rest - Arrived. his Majesty's brigs. Philonql and from separate cruizes ; the Hazi,k,• PILLAR, *from FRENCH, from . BriitOl Fanny, TEE GAFTHEN from Bridgewater; and the Kancy, FILIGIIES, from Swansea. Sailed his Majesty's ship /Narcissus for Portsmouth, Pluver for Liverpool, aud Amethyst on a cruize. Arrived his Majesty's ship Actceoiz from a cruize ; she towed in a galliot; which she fell in with at tea in distress. -PQIITSMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Came in this day his Majesty's ship Nereus from the Meditrancan, arid is put under quarantine, in consequence of having Nice-Ad m: Lord- COLLINGWOOD'i corpse on board, he having died during the' passage. Arrived his Majesty's :ships Tyrian and Dapper from a CrUiZe; also the Mary, CRAIGE, from Sun derland ; Jonge ./OitanißucKLum, from Christiana ; and the Minerva STOCKMAN, from Neath ; the Providence, RICHARDSON from Guernsey, for Lon don ; and several transports from Guerasey. Sailed his Majesty's ship - Christian PM to the Eastward. DEAL, 'Aran 17.—Sailed his Mjesty's ship Dictator, Admiral Drxox, for Yarmouth. Arrived tile Reclpole sloop of war frow.l he West- Ward. • • . Sailed. the N.ympiren fri,gate on a cruize off Flush ing... ,SHEiRNESS, APRIL- his • Majesty's brig Cruizer, with .a convoy to the Baltic, aci:oni panivd•by the . /Piingler gun-brig. - Came dower 'the river Thames his Majesty's ship Soieb.ay. APRIL 17.—Canie clown the river Thames his Majesty's ship Fylla.. Came down from Long Reach, and anchored at the Great• Nure, his Majesty's ships Blake and -Resolution. . . The Diligence collects the remaining part of the Baltic convoy, and will sail the 22d. Monday morning his MAJESTY, and Princesses :AUGUSTA and SorniA,_rook. their usual morning airing'in Windsor Great Park till twelve o'clo'ck. Yesterday morning his .MAJEsTY; and 'Princesses AUGUSTA and SnPLIIA, took an airing in Windsor Great Padc., and returned to the Palace at two o'clock. , QUEEN and' Princess E4IZABETH took an - airing to Frogmore L9d,ge and Gardens. The following . letter hag been transmitted by the Secretary of State-for the Hotne Dopartini.nt to the several-commanding Officers of Volunteer Corps in the .Metroplis • • (CIRCULAR.) "Whitehall, nth April, tat,. " SlR,—Having every reason to believe that the InetrOpo lis is in a great ineasure restored to iss usual state of Order and tranquility, I 'lose no tune in acquainting you, that the cir cumstances which lately induced hi 4 Majesty to call for the assistance of the Corps under yourconimand, towards the pre servation of the peace, no longer make it necessary that they should remain asstnibled. . • It affords me the greatest satisfaElion to communicate to you, at the same-time t t e li.gb sense entertained by His Ma jesty of the ieai and public-spirit by which the Members of your Corpi have been actuated on this important Occasion and the confideqi persuasion which is felt by His Majesty, that the same degree of alacrity will prevail among -them o should circumstances make it necessary t o ca ll aga i n for the i r exertions. • • - • •• ".1 mote the honour-to be, Sir, " Your most obedient huMble Servant, (Signed) "R. Y R." " To the Officer commanding the • Volunteers." The following whimsical' paragraph,appeared in a Morning Paper of yesterday-:— . . • . " It is singular that it has not as yet been noticed, that 'when the case Of Mr. WI usts's application was made to the House of Cpuiinons fur protettion, when be was charged. with printing a libel, they de clared that-their privileges did not 'extend to the case of a seditious - libel ; ' or, in other words, that - a libel was misdemeanor cogniz:tb!e only in the Court of Law. With this declaration made in his present .MAJESTY'S reign, it is curious that the Houte' , Shortld have proceeded to construe libel into contempt, and. to punish it by their own summary justice .o, It is difficult, amidst the 'ingenious confusion into which the English words, composing this-precious morsel: of composition, have been jumbled, to cover whether tolaseribe that confusion to the- head - or heart the writer :—lf, however, there. be . any thing to'be gathered from them, it is ,the following very logical argument, which -on the .same painful considera. ion we have' arranged as the probable cogitation by which the author was impressed " The House of Commons refused to prolect their Member ;,c lien guilty of a libel against the Stale : Ergo, the House of COUPTIOng ought to protect all libellers against themselves:" h£ITcH PAPE_'?S. Pm:is, APRIL 6.—Their .• Majesties are not expeeed to return froth Compiegne un it th 6 end of the- preient month, or the beginning of May. At two •o't lock yestway they pa , sed through Saint Elenis,-.oti their way , •to Co , npiegn, attended . by a numerous suite. Tile principal tra,.lb performers . or 4h T/ acre Fr' ilfaii were to st of this day for Compiegitle. . , -13y,.a - deothe of the 20th tilt. his Majesty: has ap., poibted Marshal the Duke of Da*ic a Knight of the-order.of the Iron C'own. , His Excellency the Duke of Padua has arrived at Pari4. ' - . . . His Serene HighneAt the Arch-Chancellor of the Empire has received permiSsion from• the Emperor to accept the order of St. Stephen, which has been conferred upon him by the Emperor of Austria: On the , 26th 'the . Special Criminal 'Court or the. tipperlthine granted a warrant of committal for trial against FratieniSL . Louis Wirnpr;. a native of Altkirchi in the said department,. charged with hav ing aided the 'Spanish insurgents, hiid 'borne.arMs against. Fiance. General KALI(REUTIi, Envoy'Extraordinary from his Prussian Majesty; has arrived -in this capital, -ab coMpanied by- two aides-de-camp3 and a Counsell.ir of the Prnssidit department for Foreign A.ffairs. object of his Excellency's miision is to Compliment theiritiperiar IVLijeithes in the : name of his Sove reign. , 7. —His'Majesty the King of Holland sets off this day,on h's return to his States. His - Excellency the flu! e of .lassano set off yeS terday'for Compiegne. ' His:Eicellency the Grand Chancellor of the Le gion of'`Honour has, pursuant to his Majesty's or ders orihe 4th inst. addressed the necessary autho iitir •to ttinee EUQZNE NAPOLEON, and the P r in ces of Parria e :: Neufchatel, Eslipg apd Ekmuhl,' to ac cept anS wear the decoration of the Austrian ,Order of St. Stephen, as Grand .Cro - ,ses ; and to the Prince of'Benevento, the Dukes of Cadore Otranto, and Friuli, and Count Montesquiou, to ' accept the ord.4 of St. Leopold. APRIL B.—His Excellency the Duke of Cadore Minister for .Foreign Affairs, set off this morning for Compiegne, where he will remain during their Majesties' stay. in that place. The Aereide frigate . ; which sailed from, St. Malo on the 20th 'January, returned to Blest on the 30th ult..'ShOidd an action en the coast of St, bomingo, and, on her passage, captured several vessels, which she'sunk or burnt. An article in the Cogrier of the Lower Rhine, un der the head of Mentz, March -00, In' the COiirsc of this month, about sixty va grants 'have beeu parrlv transported, and partly sen tenced''by the . Special Court of Criminal Justice to return fo their respe6tiVe bottles,. under pain of be ing -treated as disinrbeis of the public,Pear.e, should they again ventwe to , et foot on the French teiri tory. - Ibis 'result proves the necessity ot the mea sures: tak-n hy' the' Prefei,-,t against those' vagrants, of 'whom &few ve6;', dangerous individuals ha ve been d. twined in confinement. Their apprehension i. principally owing to,the Subprefect of the district of Spires. The Major part of those persons are beg, Jo' , .irs,.Qertnans and Poles, who have for s , ..veral been %andering up and down in various court preying u,.on the beneficence of the Liaelities. The alths and hospitality which those who profess that relig,lon adminster to the poor do honour, Un doubtedly, to 'the system which recommends such ants of coarity. They exhibit some remains of the pa triarchal tnanners of the East, and that tender hos, pitality every traveller:has a right to demand in those countries, Nevertheless, it were perhaps to be wished, that this hopitality should be exercised ac cording tOa regt4ar system,which would render these bounties More. useful to those that receive them, and less burthenSOme to those who confer them, andpre vent the abuSes resulting from an inconiideratebenevo lence; wtaicfi. tnahea no distin6lion between the idle . beggarl . by'prote,!sion, and the, truly indigent." BAYONgfi, ARCH 31..."Fr0M t 2 to 15,000 tnen of the `divisidn of ,General Serra,_have inaraled in here. eitria'. rkported, that they are going to the Asturias. , .',Wiantitie of military'F'Qre4 of every scriptiOn, aif . d.particularly shells ind.bullets, are in -cessantly; Ossing 'through this place. - - A numerous corps cicuirasSiers is shortly expeadd to' pass this way, , . • . .. Field, the pedestrian in the sack, started yz. , sterday morning from Hyde-p4rk corner, on hi's journey to the 22 mile stone, at Salt-hill. He is expected to win.at ease, - as lie•was.-seen at the eleven mile stone at / two o'ciapic. Iriis iyager- is, to go twenty-two tulles in 24 hours, for one. hundred guineas..` Saturday morning. the . Marquis CORN Wit'LLIS; the Master of his'Alaiesty's hounds, net a numerous field of Noblemen and Gentlemen, sportsmen to hounds; on Tower , hill, SWinley. At starting the deer shew ed excellenfsport. He was a remarkable fine one, and was supposed to . have run 7c) miles in th e 'h unt , which lasted upwaraS of . three hours and a half, and was at length taken within an hour and a half,. at Hartford-bridge. In the course of 'this excellent chace, many of - the-huntsmen's horses were knocked up ; many .were thrown. out ; numbers lost -their shoes. There were . upwards of twenty. Gentlemen belonging to the :Earl of DENRY'S Hunt ; they did not expect his, ILl3jesty's hounds would be able to give them such-a long'huct . It was .1411 in the Fo rest. Yesterday,, : , a 2 prisoners Were tried: at the Old Bailey, one ofiwiltm was capitally convicted; viz. William Hamihon, for breaking' and entering the dwelling-house of Sir - William Beechey, and stealing eight silver spoons and. torks, his property. CORN-ExcriANG . , Ai:IRM 18.—The supplies of Wheat this day.are considerable; not much of the first quality, which is in demand, and at a small ad vance tri .pri#6-;' l l3arley likewise ; Malt and White Pease maintain their prices; Greyi,and Beans of the two kinds also ; ittf - w"Ticks 345. to ass. per quarter; there are'roletablii ) silpplies of Oats, and tine sail) , pies 'in this.trade Are quoted rather.dcarer ; Flour remains without Variation. - . %Vhedt - 765. a .go. toss Tick figans (old) 47s a 53$ Fine ditto - to/is .a ,t Its Oats • - 225 a 243 a aSs Rye •••• - igs 4 sas Poland ditto - los a 33s od Barley - 34; a 48$ Potatou ditto 37$ 15d a—s Malt • - 7os a 73s Rape Seed - 461 a 521 - 643 a 705 Fine Flout • gis a 9 09 G rey ditto - a sos Seconds - • 8: , 5 a t' i s Beans (old) . a 6;s IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT - .HOSE OF TUESDAY; APRIL 'l7. . ConnSel were beard i a Committee of Privileged on the elaint.of I. dy Ei lieu to the 'Box.hutgH Peerage: The further tearing was chleri - eil till the first Thursdarnfier the recess. . . The innkeepers' Snn , isteoce Bill, and ' Vate Bills Were brouofit ai, frOm the Cumulous; and read a fir 'irne. , • - Mr. Burn, from Queen Anne's Bounty Office; presented a return of the number of. .Chutch.Liv, ings Under 1501. per.annum. . •, tRuELTY Toll/ARDS Lord - ERsictisc preiented a for preventing the infitaing Atiiirials of wantOn and maliciou,4 crti &tr.'Y'he"Bili''scarceiyfrom, _that - I.litich he. 'had • •therchononr- Of introducing. last Ses'ion. Therd:v4s - one additional clause providing that informers . dhouldstate upon oath triat the 'oJow struck on the anitrial Was struck with wanton '.and mali cions cruelty.... TheJtill was rhea' reid a first time and ordered to be printed, • , . • . Lord IiARDWICXE presenteirseveral popers.rela tiw to the Distilleries. Referred to the, COrntnitte now ittitig on the Subje6i. The - Earl of. LivERPOOL presented- some public pape. s, which wei - e4.)rdered : to lie on the table Adjourned. . HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY, APRIL 17. • The , Bill-fOr repealing the. Singe Coach AF} was react a first time, and ordered to be read,a second time, and to be printed, The Minutes of t:U Evidence taken before the Committee to whom the LondOn I),)ck 13i:1 was referred, was orderedto be laid ,before the House: HIGHcATE.ARCHWAY BILL. 0;1 the fluid reading of the iiighgate Archway Mr. C. ADAMS opposed the Bill, and tn:ved that it he read a third time " this day six months." Mr. P. Moore, Sir James Hall, and Mr. Curwisin, supported the motion. The question on the Amend ment was then pot and negatived, and the Bill was read a third time, passed, and ordere:lau the Lord 4, BLACKFRIARS TOLL BILL. Sir W. CuaTis moved the Second reading of the Bill'far granting-to the City of London a Toll on Blacptim!s-bridge. The'Hon. Baronet stared, that The only object which the Ciry of Lon.dTl 1).(i iii view, was to raise a Sinai] sum of money to defray the charges of light,ing, watching, and repairing the bridge; they did not by any means wish to.establish a peroianetiC Toll. He wi,lud, therefore,.. the Bill to be read a second time and to go into a Cotn , . - Mittee. Mr. StneNER nbjeSte&to the,Bill, on the ground that it. would go the length of tixingaverinanent burthen en the public. He cowended and shewed from statements, that the City had sufficient ft - Inds for all the purposes of lighting, paving, and I.l.7.ltch .ing the Bridge, whi c h funcl,i were granted by ieyrrii partiCubriy one which gatie them a .duty on coal and cultia imported into London, on which they originally desired to raise:3oo,oool. but - Which had produced them, in the space of t4ty-six years, no less a. 'sum than 1,600,0001. He therefore moved that the Bill be read a second time.this day six months. Mr. Herbert, Mr, J. Thornton, and Sir I'. Tur ten, siworted the Amendment, and Mr. Alderman I'Combe,. Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Giddy,' and Sir C. 'Price, were for 'the going into a ComMittee. The Hou'e••dMd4on the. Amendment. , For the Amendment . ' For the original Motion Majority against the 13i11 The Bill was - 'Of course lost. ' . PETITION% Lord GO6III4NE rose ;Eh! siated thw he- held in his hand a Petition - :signed. by of the City of WeerninSter, on behalf of the 1,•:',10clors of the said cit - 34. :I,i;hich. he was desired to present to the' I.loose,—The Petition was brought up by the Noble Lord, - and 'delivered in at the table,-and read by the Clerk. . - Mr.' WARD (on the question . being put that -it do lie . on the table) declared that he was not conversant with the forrfis otthe : Bouse w i t h- respe6t to the re ception of petitions', guthe did conceive that the mat ter contained in thi4Prtition 'Was so gross and. in sulting to the diu.ity• of the House, that it ought to be rejeded. • ; • Mr: HALL expressed asnwe understood, similar sentiments. Mr: Citalr l y, s could.not see any objedion to -the Petition 'belt% ji'd on, the table.- Mr.. CtiOv-a - ric suggested to' the Noble Lritd to 'withdraw - the Petition till to-morrow, io order if the EleCtors were sincere in wishing to gain their point, that the House might come to a discussion on the 'subjed: With respe4 to the allegation in a Peti- , tion presented in 178 againit an undue return, that seals were bought and sold, that was true, and it wt4s a pradiee highly indecent, at the same time be did . not quite approive Of the Petition. Mr. LUSHINGTON conpeived, that, althoti,;ll the 'House were bound to receive petitions,' still the y were- not bound to receive' insults. •.- • Mr: WHITBREAD was. sorry Gentlemen shou!ct . express an opinion that the Petition ought not :to be received. He had-hoped that the Right Hon. Gen .tleman (Mr. - Petteval)vveoldhlv e given lt isopin ion ott the subject; hoWever as he hadnot, be - must say; that although-he wished the language of the Petition had been conched in - other terms, yet that _diel not ope rate aw ° ainstits reception. .The House_nf Comm o n s would, by refusing to receive it, do Ito a& of violence to theEledors of Westminster. .The m,:etiog been, regularly convened, and as he understood (for he was not prespni,. being attending his duty elsewhere) 'was c!mduded with the ut most order and decortanCand was ,constituted ac cotiling to law. The bhjectiOn to it was, that it purported to be a remonstrance as well as petition ; that circumstance ; hot**everi ought not to prevent the House'frem receiving it.. What *as there ob-. jectionable •in the word remonstrance 1" It was used in Addresses to the Throne, why might it not be used to this House) • .The Electors of West roinster conceived that an indignity had been offered to their Representative, Sir Francis 3utdett, in the; • - -34